Table of Contents - 6 List of Tables and Illustrations - 8 Foreword - 10 1 Globalising the History of Singapore - 12 2 Situating Temasik within the LargerRegional Context: Maritime Asia and Malay State Formation in the Pre-Modern Era1 - 28 3 The Singapore River/Port in a Global Context - 52 4 ‘Walls of Illusion’:Information Generation in Colonial Singapore and the Reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890 - 68 5 The Littoral and the Literary:Making Moral Communities in the Straits Settlements and the Gold Coast in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century - 90 6 Social Discourse and Economic Functions:The Singapore Chinese in Japan’s Southward Expansion between 1914 and 1941 - 112 7 The Dynamics of Trans-Regional Business and National Politics:The Impact of Events in China on Fujian-SingaporeTea Trading Networks, 1920-1960 - 136 8 Rambutans in the Picture:Han Wai Toon and the Articulation of Space by the Overseas Chinese in Singapore1 - 152 9 The Global Effects of an Ethnic Riot:Singapore, 1950-1954 - 174 10 The British Military Withdrawal from Singapore and the Anatomy of a Catalyst - 196 11 Bringing the International and Transnational back in: Singapore, Decolonisation,and the Cold War - 216 12 The Global and the Regional in Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought:The Early Cold War Years1 - 236 13 A Brief History of the Hub:Navigating between ‘Global’and ‘Asian’ in Singapore’s Knowledge Economy Discourse - 270 About the Contributors - 292 Bibliography - 298 Other Reference Materials - 318